2025 Micro Chapbook Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Palette editors.
Highway Mothercode
“You tied a red string around my ankle, / saying this is how we will remember, // The faux-umbilical noose criminal”
Osteoporosis Ghazal
“The mug on the table reminds me / of myself: hairline fracture across its midline, out seeps the milk.”
Deadlines: August & September 2025
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in the next two months.
Featured Poetry
We are so grateful to every poet who shares their work with us—please enjoy perusing the stunning work in our poetry archive.
Child’s Shoes
“water rushes, rises feel shoes begin-to-tear / me slip (like a fawn),”
The easiest way is to say it
“There is no one to call in the city / when night pulls the sharpest stars out of me,”
Cover Letter Basics
An introduction (or refresher) on how to write a submission cover letter, covering the “5Ws & 1H” questions.